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She considers her work with Leslie Nielsen in the Naked Gun trilogy the highlight of her acting career; they had fun recreating the pottery scene from Ghost in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.
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She has two children: daughter Lisa Marie Presley born February 1, 1968, died January 12, 2023 with ex-husband Elvis Presley, and son Navarone Garibaldi Garcia born March 1, 1987 with ex-boyfriend Marco Garibaldi.
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She met future husband Elvis Presley in Bad Nauheim, Germany in 1959 when she was fourteen years old; they started living together in 1962.
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Due to the protective lifestyle she lived as Elvis’s wife, she never actually signed a check until she was 29 years old.
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Former father-in-law Vernon Presley appointed her as executor of his son’s estate in 1979, giving her licensing to Elvis’s name, image and likeness; she removed Colonel Tom Parker’s hold over assets and incorporated Elvis Presley Enterprises in 1981, opening Graceland for tours a year later; she relinquished chairman duties to daughter Lisa Marie in 1998 and now serves in an advisory position.
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She studied karate with Chuck Norris in Los Angeles and with Kang Rhee in Memphis.
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The song Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode was inspired by her 1985 autobiography.
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She walked Lisa Marie Presley down the aisle at her wedding to Michael Lockwood.
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She is a celebrity advocate for the Humane Society of the United States’ Animal Rescue Team.
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Her stepfather Paul Beaulieu passed away on January 4, 2018, eight months shy of his 70th wedding anniversary with her mother Ann Beaulieu.
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She was, very briefly, the mother-in-law of singer Michael Jackson.
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She split with boyfriend of 22 years, Marco Garibaldi, in April 2006.
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She began modeling while living in West Germany.
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She serves as Ambassador of the Dream Foundation, a Santa Barbara-based wish-granting organization for terminally ill adults.
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In 1988, she left Dallas after five seasons because she became unhappy with the direction of the series and her character.
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She won an August 1998 defamation judgment against Currie Grant, who claimed they had sex in 1959 before he introduced her to Elvis; in 2005, she considered suing photographer Terry O’Neill for his claim of an affair in the mid-1970s.
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She was born to Anna Lillian Iversen and James Frederick Wagner; her biological father was killed in a plane crash when she was six months old; she was formally adopted at age five by her mother’s second husband Paul Beaulieu and took on his surname.
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She was elected to the board of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
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She is grandmother of Riley Keough, Benjamin Keough, Harper Lockwood, and Finley Lockwood.
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As a successful boutique owner from 1973 to 1976, her clients included Carol Burnett, Victoria Principal, Liza Minnelli, Lana Turner, Julie Christie, Natalie Wood, Suzanne Pleshette, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Dyan Cannon, Michelle Phillips, Diana Ross, Mary Tyler Moore, and Jill Ireland.
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She lived with Marco Garibaldi from 1984 to 2006.
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She rejected an offer to play the female lead in the James Bond film A View to a Kill 1985.
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She protested alongside Kim Basinger, Donna D’Errico, and Elizabeth Daily at the Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles to end the canine meat trade.
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As of January 2017, she was dating Tom Jones.
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She turned down a main role on the television series Charlie’s Angels 1976.
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Media reports that she left Scientology were immediately denied by her publicist.
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In 2006, while still a vocal Scientologist, she helped inaugurate the Narconon Stone Hawk Rehabilitation Center in Albion, Michigan; Narconon is based on principles developed by L. Ron Hubbard, and she stated it is capable of eliminating cravings that drive addicts back to drugs.
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Hal B. Wallis, a Hollywood producer who financed several of Elvis’s early films, was interested in signing her to a contract, but Elvis did not allow his wife to have a career.
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She was named godmother of the largest steamboat ever built, American Queen, christened on April 27, 2012, at its home port of Memphis, Tennessee.
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Her father, Ensign James Frederick Wagner, was a Naval submariner and later a pilot during World War II; he was killed when his single-engine SNJ Navy training plane crashed near the New York-Connecticut border.
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She owns two Tennessee Walking Horses, which she stables at Graceland.
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She is ex-mother-in-law of Nicolas Cage, Danny Keough, and Michael Lockwood.
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She made her pantomime debut as the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the New Wimbledon Theatre in 2012 and reprised the role at the Opera House in Manchester in 2014.
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From 2016 to 2019, she toured Europe with The Wonder of You, a concert featuring her late ex-husband’s voice with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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By age 10, she had attended six schools.
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She launched a worldwide line of bed linens in 2006, partnered with Australian designer Bruno Schiavi; she also has a furniture line called the Priscilla Presley Home Collection.
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Though originally from the East coast, she grew up primarily in Austin, Texas; her family moved there from Maine when she was in fourth grade and left the summer before she started high school.
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Her favorite movies are Doctor Zhivago 1965 and Gone with the Wind 1939.
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She had long-term relationships with karate champion Mike Stone, male model Michael Edwards, and television producer Nigel Lythgoe; other past consorts include lawyer Robert Kardashian, hairdresser Elie Ezerzer, financier Kirk Kerkorian, crooner Julio Iglesias, actor Richard Gere, restaurateur Richie Palmer, variety entertainer Barry Crocker, and disc jockey Toby Anstis.
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She was named after actress Priscilla Lane.
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She has regular chemical peels to get rid of wrinkles and brown spots.
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She has developed an international fragrance line since 1988, including Moments, Experiences, Indian Summer, and Roses and More; Moments was worth $90 million a year in 1996.
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She pursued the role of Susan Atwell in No Way Out 1987, which went to Sean Young.
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In 1983, she became the third actress to play Jenna Wade on Dallas, after Morgan Fairchild in 1978 and Francine Tacker in 1980.
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She succeeded Jaclyn Smith as spokesmodel for Wella Balsam shampoo in 1979-80.
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Her son Navarone Garibaldi Garcia fronts the rock band Them Guns.
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Her stepfather Paul Beaulieu was born June 18, 1925, and died January 4, 2018; he served in the Air Force and kept close watch on Elvis; he retired in 1976 as Special Assistant to the Commander 21st Air Force.
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She played the genie in a pantomime production of Aladdin at the Milton Keynes Theatre in Buckinghamshire, UK.
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The AutoZone Liberty Bowl chose her as its 2018 Distinguished Citizen Award winner.
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She has been portrayed by Season Hubley, Susan Walters, Antonia Bernath, Olivia DeJonge, and Cailee Spaeny.
